Compact

• US 7,228,863 B2
• Filed: 03/10/2005
• Issued: 06/12/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Steven Bennett
• Original Assignee: GEKA GmbH (Sulzer AG)
• Inventors: Dumler, Norbert, Bennett, Steve
• Primary Examiner(s): DOAN, ROBYN KIEU
• Application Number:
  US11/076,225
• Publication Number:
  US 20050199259A1
• Time in Patent Office: 824 Days
• Field of Search: 132293-300, 132/314, 132/218, 206/581, 206/823, D28/83, 220/23.4, 220/23.86
• US Class Current: 132/294
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 33/006 Vanity boxes or cases, compacts, i.e. containing a powder receptacle and a puff or applicator A45D33/025 - A45D33/34 and A45D40/22 take precedence; toiletry etuis A45C11/008
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 40/24 Casings for two or more cosmetics

Abstract

In a compact comprising a housing, an applicator and a plurality of recesses in the housing for receiving a cosmetic, it is provided, with a view to obtaining an improved compact, that the length of the applicator and the width of the recesses are coordinated for the sum of the widths of the recesses approximately to correspond to the length of the applicator so that the applicator, when stroking across the recesses, is simultaneously loaded with each of the cosmetics contained therein.

Claims

1. A compact comprising:

a housing (12);

an applicator (40) having a brush (44) in the housing (12); and

a plurality of recesses (28) in the housing (12), each of the recesses (28) having a cosmetic therein;

wherein the recesses (28) are arranged in the housing (12) side-by-side along the longitudinal length of each of the recesses (28);

wherein the length of the brush (44) is substantially equal to a width of the plurality of recesses (28) defined by the distance between a first and a last longitudinal edge of the plurality of recesses;

wherein when opposite ends of the brush (44) are respectively aligned with the first and the last longitudinal edge of the plurality of recesses and moved across the plurality of recesses, the brush is loaded in a single stroke with each of the cosmetics in the plurality of recesses,

wherein the recesses (28) are each formed in a concave portion (26) of the housing (12) and are each themselves formed curved concave along the longitudinal length thereof,

wherein the applicator is a mascara brush having a brush and a handle engaged to the brush, and

wherein both the brush and handle have a circular cross section.

2. The compact according to claim 1, wherein each of the recesses (28) are consecutively aligned along the width of the recesses.

3. The compact according to claim 1, wherein each of the recesses (28) have an approximately rectangular basic shape.

4. The compact according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of recesses (28) are formed in the concave portion (26) of a first compartment of the housing (12).

5. The compact according to claim 4, wherein the plurality of recesses (28) are covered by a lid (14) over the first compartment.

6. The compact according to claim 5, wherein the lid (14) includes a projection (20) having a nib for leakage or drying to be precluded.

7. The compact according to claim 4, wherein the applicator (40) is removably stored in a second compartment (34) of the housing (12) located below a bottom side of the first compartment.

8. The compact according to claim 7, wherein the second compartment (34) that stores the applicator (40) is closed by a cover (32).

9. The compact according to claim 7, wherein the longitudinal length of the first compartment is longer than and traverse to that of the second compartment.

10. The compact according to claim 7, wherein the longitudinal length of the first compartment is greater than the width of the second compartment.

11. The compact according to claim 1, wherein the applicator is a twisted or injected mascara brush.

12. The compact according to claim 1, wherein the cosmetic is a viscous, cast cosmetic or a powdery compacted cosmetic for grooming or for colouring.

13. The compact according to claim 1, wherein the cosmetic in each of the recesses has a color different from the other recesses.

14. The compact according to claim 1, wherein the longitudinal length of each of the plurality of recesses extend along the longitudinal length of the housing.